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		ska on April 30, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Colleges at the breaking point, forcing ‘hard choi... There is also a lot of value in the conversations you have with other students and faculty something that is really hard to reproduce remotely. It's also something where quality matters, I suspect.

N1H1L on April 30, 2020 [–]

Highly true. You learn a lot through osmosis, by interacting with smart peers (faculty/other PhDs) and that is invaluable.

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